It is a difficult thing to place our trust in God, sometimes. Okay, a lot of the time. Sometimes, we get so caught up in our vision of the results that we forget to trust the Author of the entire story. This psalm is a call for two things, as I read it: patience and obedience.
As we obey God, we may get mixed results. The Bible shows a complex story in which results are not guaranteed. Obedient prophets are ignored and killed. Broken people who make poor decisions become successful. Evil prospers (in the short term) as oppressive kings are granted long reigns. So as we live in obedience, we can expect failures, trials and the like.
Yet we are also promised that our obedience will bear fruit. We may not know what the fruit will look like, but we do know that there will be fruit in the end. The question is, can I endure patiently until the day of the fruit shows up? Maybe not, but the Holy Spirit can help me endure. I pray for all of us patient obedience.
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